The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.